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No. 168,106, Patented Sept-28,1875.

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ILPETEIS, PHGTDJJTHDGRAHIER. WASHINGTON. D. O.

UNITED STATES PATENT OEEIoE.

JAMES M. REDDY, 0E MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN.

IMPROVEMENT IN SCHOOL-ROOM HEATERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 168,106, datedSeptember 28, 1875; application filed March 17, 1875.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES M. REDDY, of Milwaukee, in the county ofMilwaukee, in the State of Wisconsin. have invented certain Improvementsin School Room Heaters, of which the followingis a specification:

My invention has for its object the heating of school-rooms and otherplaces. It is heated with an air-opening in its bottom for the air topass up and around the lire-pot to the top, and inside of the outershell, where there is a water-reservoir, for the purpose of moisteningthe air, and a register-opening at the top for the heated air to escapefrom the heater.

Figure 1 is an isometrical view of my invention Fig. 2, a verticalsection of same, and Fig. 3 a view of the hotair register andevaporizing-pan.

A is the outside shell of the heater; B. the opening in the bottom forthe inlet of air; 0, the ash-pan D, the'grate and grate-shaker; E, acrimped rim round the inside of the bottom of the fire-pot and above thegrate; F, the fire-dome; G, smoke and heat room; H, air-space inside theshell A; I, a handle to open and close the air-registers K, top of theheater, which projects downward in its center within about an inch ofthe bottom of the evaporizing-pan; L, cover on the top of K, withopenings in it; M, opening in the top for the supply ofwater; N, doorfor feeding in fuel to the fire; O, anti-clinker door; P, smokepipe; Q,isinglass in the side of shell A; R, isinglass in the door N; T, anevaporatingpan in the top of the heater; U, the registers round the topof the heater; V, fire-pot; W, a double bottom of the evaporating-pan,forming an air-space between the two, and throwin g the heat to theoutside of the pan.

The operation of this heater is as follows: Set it in a school-room, orany other, place, over an opening in the floor, for the air to pass upinto it, and attach the pipe P from the heater to the chimney; fill theevaporating-pan with water; then build a fire in the fire-pot, and theheat will rarefy the air in space H, and it will rise and pass round thewater-reservoir, and the steam risingti'om the Water will mix with theair 'and' moisten the same, and then pass out through the registers U,and heat the room.

I claim as my invention- 1. Evaporating-pan T, with a double bottom, W,register U, and top K, all in combination substantially as set forth.

2. A heater with evaporating-pan T, with bottom W, top K, and cover L,all incombination substantially as described.

1 JAMES M. BEDDY. Witnesses:

J. B. SMITH, LYMAN MORGAN.

